Posted on 11/02/2010 11:54:03 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple controlled 95 percent of the emerging market for tablet computers with its iPads in the July-to-September quarter, research firm Strategy Analytics (SA) said on Tuesday.
The competition in the market is, however, tightening fast with handset vendors and PC makers moving into the new category of devices, between traditional PCs and smartphones, taking a cue from the success the iPad, a 10-inch touchscreen tablet that began selling in April.
The total market grew to 4.4 million tablets in the September quarter from 3.5 million in the previous quarter, the researcher said.
"The tablet wars are up and running. Apple has quickly leveraged its famous brand, an extensive retail presence and user-friendly design to develop the tablet segment into a multi-billion-dollar global business," said SA analyst Neil Mawston.
Mawston said the other platforms -- Android, Microsoft, MeeGo of Nokia and Intel, Hewlett-Packard's webOS and RIM's Blackberry -- have already much ground to make up.
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Who knows where the market will be a year from now, but Little CG had his heart set on a 3G iPad for his birthday. Word has it, the Great Pumpkin came through.
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The Apple Ipad does not have a USB port and can handle flash. You would think a competitor would fill this void - but so far none have...
This is like CBS wrote this story!
Apple creates its own category of device.
They are the only ones selling a device.
Claim 95% of sales!!!! (they should have just said 100%)
12 months from now when tablets flood the market. Apple’s numbers collapse, then they scream “It was bound to happen. No big deal!!!!” because the propaganda no long fits reality and doesn’t make for a gushing headline.
Two things irritating about the iPad...no, make that three.
Not handling flash...grrrr.
Having to go back and forth between numbers and letters on the online keyboard.
And if you do use a wireless keyboard, the dock is crummy...and you have to take the case off.
Recently though I saw a setup that looks interesting if you want to use it for “working”...I usually use mine for “playing.”
It’s more like Al Gore or the Global warming crowd wrote the story.
Known data like the number of Pandigital devices sold has to have been excluded to make these numbers. Sometimes what can be shown to have been left out is as important as what is included.
Apple fanboys will defend the numbers anyway.
If i wanted a tablet i’d go looking at the other 5% to buy one.
This won’t last for long. Just like Android is now destroying apple in the smart phone business so shall they do it in the tablet business.
thanks...I’ll check it out
The problem is inherent in Flash. It expects things a touch based system simply can't provide such as mouse-over and keyboard input.
Adobe has seen the light and demonstrated a Flash to HTML5 converter tool just last week.
Having to go back and forth between numbers and letters on the online keyboard.
It would be nice but just isn't room for both. I've gotten used to it.
And if you do use a wireless keyboard, the dock is crummy...and you have to take the case off.
I agree. I bought the docked keyboard and found that problem. But my old Bluetooth keyboard works great!
Here's the original. Geez, some people...
> It would be nice but just isn't room for both. I've gotten used to it.
Most of my typing is a mix of letters and numbers. Switching keyboard screens is annoying. I can't effectively use the iTouch onscreen KB for that reason, and it was my hope (indeed my expectation) that the iPad would fix that with another row of keys above. Or at least a preferences option to add that row. *sigh*
Maybe some enterprising developer will come up with an optional onscreen KB that can pop up in place of the default one. Assuming Jobs doesn't veto it.
Yeah, I'd like it too. It's one of those engineering trade offs we've discussed before. One more row of keys or see the screen? Perhaps it could have the number row in the portrait mode?
The "tablet" category has been around for quite a long time, the problem was that almost nobody was buying them. Then Apple came along and created a tablet people actually like.
12 months from now when tablets flood the market. Apples numbers collapse, then they scream It was bound to happen. No big deal!!!!
It is logically expected. Not that Apple's numbers collapse, but there's obviously a huge demand for the new Apple-defined type of tablet, and many sales are currently not being made because Apple can't make enough iPads, and because iPads cost a lot. When the market is flooded with cheap copies, the market will expand, far more will be sold than today, eating into netbook, notebook and even PC sales. Apple will continue selling a lot of iPads, but the low-margin copiers will sell more due to 1) lower price and 2) more manufacturers selling them through more channels.
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